5 Reasons for The Incredibly Shrinking Sundance

5 Reasons why January's Sundance Film Festival may look like its own stepchild. , Slamdance.

1. This inspirational hopey guy is being inaugurated in Washington, DC with celebs and cool kids on the same party weekend. Now he's even drawing the cool away from the snow?!

2. Corporate cocktail sponsorship money is was on fire. It's gone.

3. Nightlife Kingpins Noah Tepperberg (U Miami '97) and Jason Strauss (St. David's - NYC '89, BU '97) are not porting their "internationally known celebrity driven" clubs Marquee and Tao (Most Profitable Restaurant in the Country '07) to Park City at Harry O's again.

4. Two paparazzi magnets at the bottom of Main St. won't be back. The Town Lift Celebrity Gifting center is now an official part of the Festival (means civilians, not swag). And Kari Feinstein's Style Lounge is relocating to a private residence off Main St.

5. Old: FU-tah for your shitty drinking laws. Now: FU-tah with a Huge Gay Boycott expected as Prop 8 Payback.

So, anyone got a hotel room in DC?

Previously: Sundance vs. Inauguration

The Sunday Funnies

Expired by 2 years, but better late than never.

Super Sisters for Supermodels Mag

Always fun to catch up with Haylie Duff (Don't Vote for Pedro '04). She hosted the Supermodels Unlimtied Magazine Hot Hollywood Party at Social (remember that place?) on Wednesday night (12 Nov).

Building on previous covergirl Ali Lohan, the "must have a stellar sister qualification" to front the magazine remains in effect. (A girl who's brother dated Lauren on The Hills for 2.5 episodes lurked outside on the carpet).

Inside Debbie Deborah Gibson (Sanford Calhoun H.S. - NY '87) didn't need the quickly revoked open bar vodka to start enjoying her guest's company before even entering the ballroom.

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Regrets Only? Front Row Fashion No-Shows Audrina and Jillian.

How dumb are the paparazzi? The sidewalk stalkers outside this party needed a chicken scratched "tip sheet" on what to ask - "J. Lo wants another baby", "Paula Abdul Stalker OD Suicide", and "something about Jennifer Anniston" were the "must ask questions.

This band - The Last Goodnight - stole Maroon 5's soundguy and stylists while Adam Levine was on vacation. Totally didn't suck.

High Fives to BR and Entertainment Marketing Company.

Elvis' First Girlfriend is Brody's Mom?

Hostess Ms. Michelle Vink (House of An 'current, Look to the Stars.org 'current) and the multi-credited Linda Thompson model Thompson's column on "Being a gentleman in Hollywood" in this month's LA Confidential Magazine.

The gentlemanly thing to do at the Lift MD spa open house on Wednesday (12 Nov) was to introduce yourself to Linda Thompson (Miss Tennessee '72, Elvis' Domestic Partner at Graceland '72-76, Brody Jenner's Mom '83, Academy Award/Grammy Nominee '90, Mrs. David Foster '03)

Brody's "hot mom" has not shared the article with her son, who is mocked in frequent TV ads for AT&T for "being a pig" while lunching with sometimes girlfirend Lauren Conrad (Laguna H.S. - CA'04).

Live on Scene: Olsen Twins Draw Creepy Old Readers to Westwood

A Chimp.net operative sends this live blackberry report from the Boardner's bookstore in Westwood:

At the Olsen Twins Book signing thing. Rules are as expected: "no photos, no personalized autographs, no staring directly at the Olsens." Ok i made the last one up. The line is pretty small. 100 tops. But there was a vip group first i think, so that's a few more. Crowd is on on mix of kids, gays and child molesters.

Funniest moment: a group of people w autographs walked down and one teenage girl waiting goes "how come no one is crying?" About to go up. Will keep you posted.

22 Minutes Later:

So upstairs there were more people. The two guys in front of us had roses but a guy took them just before they got to the table. I was going to ask them to make it out to "Heath" but I chickened out. Plus, as they said, "no personalized autographs". They were nice and pretty hot, I think.Their signatures are just scribbles though. It's like they've stuck to the same signatures since they were onFull House for authenticity purposes. There were PETA prosters outsie with "trollsen" signs but I'm on Team Olsen.

Kim Kardashian Make-A-Wish Miami

A Miami Beach tipster sends in this report:

Kim Kardashian (E! 'current)hosted the South Florida Make-A-Wish Ball at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami on Saturday (8 Nov). While encouraging bidders to pony up for luxuries like a 2009 Aston Martin, she had a harder time drumming up support for the chance to sit with her in a suite at a future New Orleans Saints game - her BF Reggie Bush plays there.

Sometimes stories can be distorted, we’ll report this out of context quote verbatim:

Kim: “Come on, come sit in my box, it will be fun!!” Kim then sold the clothes off her back– putting up her Catharine Malandrino dress.

Other Things We Couldn’t Have Afforded to Bid On:

· A walk on role on Entourage [Courtesy of the night’s bandleader Adrien Grenier (La Guardia H.S. – NY ’94, Smoke Jumpers ’09)]

· A party for 500 people at South Beach’s enduringly popular Mansion

The philanthropists raised $1,550,000 in one night, enough to grant wishes for 3-400 kids, or pick up the tab for that party at Mansion.

Congrats to the Make a Wish Mafia: C.M., Shareef Malnik, and Michael Capponi.

Uh Oh: Sundance and Inauguration, Same Weekend

Attention Hollywood Marketing Machine: The biggest coming attraction in Park City this January is "A Schedule Conflict".
You see Hopey's presidential inauguration, and its surrounding festivities, falls on the same big opening weekend of Sundance and its parties, gifting suites, and concerts.

The smart money (whatever is left of it) is predicting "Sundance on the Potomac" this January.

Has the Sundance swagfest clusterf*ck doomsday clock just moved a few minutes closer to midnight?